Can You Beat Terraria Using Sentry Weapons Only?

if you've ever played Terraria then you may have come across a subclass of weapons called sentries I don't blame you if you haven't though as these weapons are kind of trash on their own and they're intended to be used alongside minions and weps as part of a summoner's Arsenal so how would a Terraria play through Luke if you would only use these slow stationary and sometimes stupid sentries the first challenge in this playthrough comes from the lack of weapons there's only 17th century weapons in the game with all but five of these coming from the tavern keep NPC The Tavern keep will only spawn after defeating the world evil boss which is the year of worlds in my case the only other option in pre-hard mode is the houndiest shootiest dropped by deer clubs this means in order to get the first weapon I'm going to have to defeat either of these bosses but how exactly do I plan to kill these bosses without using any weapons well if you've seen my boss drops only challenge then you'll have some idea of where this is going after spending some time Underground doing my best to hide from enemies I emerge to the surface with extra Health some basic movement accessories and a fill set of platinum armor I decided to get some sleep before my big fight with keg and slime only to be rudely awakened by the Goblin Army I hid in a hole like the coward I am while they burned above me then when the smoke cleared I went in search of the goblin tinkerer after combining some accessories and finding Cactus armor isn't an effective weapon against the Eye of Cthulhu I spawned King Slime and started leading him into the various lava pills that I'd laid out it doesn't take too long to deplete his health but unfortunately I don't get the drop I wanted from his first treasure back after a few more kills I get the slimy saddle allowing me to deal decent damage while doing my best Chris Pratt impression with the power of Italian Plumbing I take down the ice Cthulhu granting me another way to deal damage to enemies through the shield of Cthulhu foreign with these two methods of damage I can now descend into the snow caves to farm for a flinx fire then using this craft the summon item for deer clops [Music] the start of the fight was a little messy with me deciding whether to use the shield Bonk slime bounce or a mix of both eventually I landed on an incredibly trivial way to take down deer clocks using the slimy saddle if performed correctly the only danger with this system is the shadow hand spawned by deer clubs but with my relatively High defense I don't have to worry too much about these will this method may keep me alive throughout the fight it certainly isn't a quick one taking around 14 minutes from start to end as a result I unlock yet another way to damage enemies without using weapons this time the bone helm unfortunately I didn't get the houndier shooters to drop on the first attempt and had to Farm Deer corpse a few times before eventually after seven and a half hours and three bosses defeated I obtained my first weapon unfortunately said weapon was pretty bad so wasted no time in working towards an upgrade I cleared some space in the underground corruption and spawned the Eater of Worlds well the houndier certainly helped I definitely feel like the bone Helm did most of the damage here as it's able to pierce through multiple segments with the eater defeat the tavern keep can now spawn anywhere in the world although he decided to take quite some time before doing so I take this time to upgrade to some obsidian armor for the extra summon damage along with completing some fishing quests and getting started on a hell Bridge I then decided to take on Skeletron and died so instead took on queen bee and she died the honeycomb accessory is actually quite useful in this playthrough giving a less static way of dealing damage than sentries at this point it had been a couple hours since I defeated the year of Worlds and I was running out of things to do so started clearing out an area in the underground for a hard mode mob farm thankfully not too long after this the tavern keep actually spawned and after buying a couple of centuries from him I returned to the surface to face tier one of the Old One's Army foreign the lightning artist entries got me through the earlier waves but for the later waves I switched to ballistos to help take down aerial enemies by the time we 5 in the dark Mage arrived I had my own Army of centuries dealing with massive damage and quickly took it down the Mage drops a squire Shield which was a change made in the labor of love update that massively helped sentries in the Summoner clash in general there is one other drop I want from this event though after farming the event a few times I got the war table which was also changed in labor of love to give an extra accessory slot when right clicked similar to how the bewitching table works for summons with these upgrades I can confidently take down scalatron although doing so it doesn't really give me any upgrades so I move straight on to the Wall of Flesh on my first attempt I ran out of space on my hell Bridge so spend some time extending it then on my second attempt I ran out of space for my world which is a little harder to extend on my third attempt I got painfully close to winning with the wall being on just 31 health I was as focused as I could be on my fourth attempt making sure I kept some distance from the wall and its attacks until it was moving way too fast to stay away from then with one final book on the nose the wall Was Defeated and hard mode began foreign the first thing I do once entering hard mode is head to the Aether bio so I can transform my warrior emblem into a Summoner one this has to be one of the best additions to the labor of love update and saves so much time grinding the Wall of Flesh for just a chance of getting the right emblem my next priority was obtaining the Queen Spider staff the only hard mode Sentry available before defeating a mechanical boss after treating the spider biome with the same Keras and arachnophobic in Australia I have enough spider fangs to craft the staff I then went about all the regular things you do once entering hard mode Manning oars crafting Wings fishing for potions dying to Queen slime 100 times then just to change things up I decided to diet scale to one prime instead since I don't need to be holding any weapon for most entries to deal damage I decided I'd farm for the rod of Discord which was fun for the first couple of hours but by error 3 the boredom really started to kick in eventually it dropped though and on the bright side it made farming for the ank Shield almost enjoyable in comparison neither grind however could come anywhere near close to the TDM of waiting for a sandstorm I spent days lying in bed waking only to do the daily fishing Quest or when the wind crept above 30 miles per hour unfortunately this is the only way to get the Forbidden armor set which is the only real damage upgrade I could get over obsidian at this stage after waiting long enough I decided to take down green slime and was lucky enough to get the gelatinous pillion mode from the first bag I returned to waiting for a sandstorm and eventually one came I crafted the mask and ropes but the thought of waiting for another sandstorm filled me with Dread so I went straight into another attempt of Skeletron Prime the additional defense granted from the armor and the extra Mobility from the rod of Discord seems to make a big difference turning the tide in my favor playing with the spider stuff is a very different experience to most other weapons to the spiders it spawns can only jump a few blocks high so staying near the ground is important on top of trying to dodge the boss's attacks there's now the added complexity of trying to lead it into all the spiders so that I can actually deal damage when I do this right however I do deal out a lot of damage and after a few minutes Skeletron Prime is defeated foreign with what was probably the most challenging part of this playthrough of the way I had now unlocked tier two of the Old One's Army this meant I could also buy the ballista cane and two pieces of squired armor from The Tavern keep to help me through the event itself foreign with my upgraded weapon armor I make quick work of the Old One's Army using the defender medals I won to complete my Squire set this power boost led to a bit of a Boss Rush through the rest of progression and as the stage where sentries actually become a formidable subclass the remaining two mechs were the next to fall and with hotanki Squire armors along with the damage of the ballista cane it doesn't take long allowing me to fight them back to back on the same night only after defeating them that I realized I still had my fishing accessories equipped after spending some time expanding my jungle Arena and looking for Plantera bulbs I eventually found one and began leading her back to my Arena once here the fight is fairly easy just circling in phase one and then running away from the scary plant monster in phase two why are you running why are you running I made my way through the jungle temple to find an annoyingly small Golem room I decided to then make this even smaller in order to have a flat bottom to the arena which ended up stopping Golem from spawning and costing a power cell I ended up dying on my first attempt which is a little embarrassing against Golem but on my second attempt I came out on top foreign defeating Golem unlocks the final tier of the Old One's Army so I grab an upgraded ballista from The Tavern keep and build a platform to help against Betsy I lost on my first attempt with the Eternia Crystal taking too much damage but then on my second I barely scraped by a win giving me enough Defender medals to upgrade to a full set of Valhalla Knight armor next Comes The Lunatic cultists who at this point may as well be called a mini boss the pillars on the other hand are still the worst part of the game even with the changes made in labor of love I'm happy these changes were made but I still feel a fundamental rework is necessary to make them an enjoyable section with my final preparations complete I take down the last pillar and wait for minor to spawn the first fight really did not go well I was trying to keep relatively close to the Moon Lord so that my sentries could deal damage but fighting the boss this way is very difficult with the amount of projectiles he spawns instead I opted to go for a more tanky build combating the charm of myths Frozen shield Star Veil worm scarf Shiny Stone and the Spore sack to help deal with moon leeches for Mobility I used the gelatinous pillion Mount where necessary although this was only really used to avoid the death rate attack foreign once the eyes were down the moonlord began dealing increased damage and it became a race to see which one of us could kill the other the quickest after watching my health bar get lure and lore between each Health portion I eventually defeated moonlord proving that you can in fact complete Terraria using sentries only

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Keywords: Terraria, gaming, challenge, sentries, sentry, only, beat, complete, finish, terraria 1.4, terraria 1.4.4, terraria journey's end

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Length: 15min 41sec (941 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 02 2022